at that time vietnam was divided into no i then south the us supported the government of south vietnam and military intervention intensified after nine hundred sixty five. but the us made strong resistance from guerrilla forces who used dense jungle as their base of operations. defoliant spraying was begun in an effort to deny cover to the guerrillas by eliminating the jungle falling. as the war escalated the spraying of deval and increased dramatically and much of the land in south vietnam was contaminated and left barren. the defoliant known as agent orange was made from the same chemical substances as herbicides used in the us but it was twenty five times more potent.

agent orange also contained dioxin the most toxic chemical ever produced. dioxin remains in the environment for many decades and causes a variety of health problems. several million vietnamese and american soldiers who fought in vietnam were affected by agent orange. their children and grandchildren continue to suffer the affects. dioxin remains in the soil of vietnam today and the land has yet to recover. between one nine hundred sixty six and sixty eight a lot of chemical was sprayed into aung sun mountains along the border with laos.

that they did i get it for them the hills were covered with large trees that yeah. thank. all those. that don't want it here after the chemicals were sprayed all the trees died from truong song to acquiring tree wow for one tree by then i know i'm not me not me we used to have many precious animals in this area we have a little bit you know actually i don't. know why. they were elephants and tigers bears and lions i want to know that if they didn't make it on my eye but that got through i didn't know they were precious birds including peacocks. of my own. being much how i want to be they were all destroyed by the war not only by bombs but by chemicals.

in vietnam agent orange was only sprayed in the south but there are many victims in the north as well as they were exposed in the jungles of the south while fighting in the north vietnamese army after serving in the war these veterans began to develop cancer diabetes and other illnesses many of their children were born with health problems and the effects have carried over into the third generation. it's a myth that. i have six sons and a daughter i do know my daughter has trouble with her eyes. she has six fingers if.

this is the youngest son he is mentally disabled. right the one of the grandsons has problems with nerves and breathing down the other grandson has skin disease. it will be why when i fought in the south i saw chemicals being sprayed from airplanes overhead. i became blind when i was two. since then my life has been very hard. i am now twenty eight and life is dark and difficult. i hope that the society will take care of me and that i will be able to see again.

the midwestern town of can feel how high up. no matter how their bowels are the daughter of a vietnam veteran lives in this small town with her husband aaron and two sons. my father bill morris was in vietnam in one nine hundred sixty eight through one nine hundred sixty nine he was in long binh. and he would also go out on convoy i was born in one nine hundred seventy two. my mother actually had two miscarriages prior to me my birth experience was pretty traumatic for her because i was born with multiple problems. i was missing my leg

and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot and my mother said that there was a gasp everyone was shocked and all she saw was the. oxygen mask or whatever to kind of knock her out my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange in vietnam and so that's when my parents started pushing and trying to get the word out so i was interviewed for local newspapers and. i would be photographed and our story would be told in newspapers primarily once when i was a teen in the band because it was big news i mean you her girl with one leg marching in a high school competitive band in a very small town i mean it was news i was born without my my fingers on my left

hand and on my right hand. my hands really honestly never really stood in the way for me except for an outward sign to other people that i wasn't the same i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit because to me they're my hands you know just as if anyone would. but they do tell a story they tell us story of. in october two thousand and ten heather and i and visited vietnam for the first time. their first stop was with the family of gwen van landing in kwan maine province.

i don't want to tell you. how. they're going to come back from clean up harmon's got a doctor who. only know. your eyes are red they are always like this even if. you know nothing i say it was the way he said mommy. right now i don't know what i'm. going to. die and. i don't really i don't. think i do you know getting bigger if you don't. think that it was a good. joke like you know the daughter is twenty seven and the son is twenty five

. you walk past she's in great pain when she has her period. back. that sometimes the pain is so bad she can't eat three days i need a night oh michael they cannot see and needs to be fed. feel. that young to be their daily life i entered the military in one nine hundred seventy three and was stationed in denying all mouth. going out and i was building roads to get to you know when you ask him what he thought it was the problems with children when did you first understand that there were any other way out when i came home from the war and the children were born i was shocked you get a new. ever imagined it was because of agent orange. that brooke we thought an ancestor might have had

a serious disease but. you know we checked the family histories and found nothing even your goodnight i'll get that one whole lot of you and i got. a gun will play out as a mother it is painful to have children like this. but but they are so unfortunate compared to other children you talk. you would call me don't you know no one is willing to accept our children. which. they are as adults now and they would like to work with get help so when you're in it i think i. am going to know that no one will hire them. but. i can't know. that it is harder once parent to be a parent of children like they. really caught up with.

if you've been able to have any education so far. as you know. they probably ready to go you don't know them the way you you never never. did. can you ask her about you like to tell the children who've been affected by agent orange in america when she would like to come down and we galvanize the venue in that into the date on the new man into the family the night we. put it in the media. i feel sympathy companies based wrong in the. movie i'm also trying hard to be happy. i want to look like you are you're not. really very wide with

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and ran an antique store on weekends. my father was alive when i got married he really really really loved it he was comfortable with it. i think that was

a huge fear for him he was afraid that i wouldn't find anyone. and when he met aaron he knew he knew that aaron loved me he got to walk me down the aisle and. very very good memory for me. when i was born and had all these issues and he blamed himself and my mother didn't know when she was having miscarriages he dabbled in alcoholism for a while he was imprisoned by vietnam. and he didn't live his life because of that what a tragedy i must've been about six or seven maybe eight years old maybe at the most and i remember hearing my parents fight and. it was typically you know they would carry on and and then one of them would peel out the driveway in

the car you know out of anger and i remember my dad got quiet and i was in my room and i heard him go into the bedroom i was little and i remember i was in my night clothes and i went to the door and i saw him standing by his upright dresser with his heels on the dresser. and i look and he had a pistol and as he and. i was little i didn't know i didn't know that he was probably very close to cleaning suicide at that point in time and i went to him and i remember just be a little like the daddy if it doesn't work oh first try try again that was my eight year old wisdom at the time and you know. you turned around and he looked at me and screwed me up. try try again and he put the gun down father's death was really it was service connected they did

connect it his exposure to agent orange he would always say i didn't realize i was taking my children or he said floored me if i didn't know he said if i had known what would happen to you. i would have dodged the draft. and for my father to say that that was huge and to hear that come out of his mouth was shocking to me it was shocking but it just spoke to the guilt that he carried from the moment my father went into the draft our life always centered around vietnam always of course there's been times fits and i would call in fits and spurts in my life believe it that i would become so impassioned over power and i

have to do something about this agent orange stuff and it's just still there and it's the unfair and i can't believe this one of the last times i found sharon perry on facebook believe it or not it was i had googled or something children of aging or injured children american veterans soldiers children you know and those kinds of things and legacy was there and i was. i cried you know i just cried we laid there's other people because when you fight this first so long and our country is so large that you feel isolated. thank you and thank you thank. you.

when my husband died everything that i based my life on my beliefs my value system it was turned on its head he always told me from the time that i'm. met him that you know we were going to get married that he he was going to die long before me and he died at fifty six it is it is my understanding that his death is attributed to exposure to agent orange because he did serve in country in the brown water navy on the rivers

and he had yes he had diabetes and perfectly rocky other secondary illnesses. got started with agent orange legacy. after my husband passed away of course what the american people need to know that's that's who needs to know is that the families of vietnam veterans are on the brink they are there they are devastated with the circumstances though they face today that they've been living with for years with untreated post-traumatic stress disorder with illnesses and cancerous caused by agent orange their children are ill their grandchildren are ill they're in these families are devastated they're having to fight for any benefits that they get this straw in my family they killed my husband and that's enough to keep me going to live there i die and i get

discouraged yes and then i meet somebody who says you help me and that gets me to the next day. surety kate's parents divorced soon after she was born. her father who she reconnected with when she was twenty six was a vietnam veteran who carry deep scars from the war he died of cancer in two thousand and nine i was more or less an accident. they got married long enough so that i would not be considered illegitimate so that i would have my father's name by the time i was two i think i'd been to. four or five different doctors about it and it to a dermatologist diagnosed me with alopecia universality in my in my case which

means i don't have anybody here really anywhere also when i was almost sixteen and not started my period yet so my mom took me to the doctor to just kind of you know see what was going on and the first doctor the we went to took a look and said i need to refer you to a specialist and she didn't really explain what she saw or anything to us she just wanted to go over here to the specialist so went to go see a doctor at the university of alabama in birmingham. not remembering his name just right now and he did a pelvic examination and then they did an ultrasound and some others hess i believe they even may have done a clone was on check to make sure it was really supposed to be a girl go if they found out was that i didn't have a uterus and that my vagina was only about you know that big it wasn't normal everything looked normal from the outside but on the inside nothing was right and they said you're not going to have a normal sex life you're not going to have children and that was really hard you

know in your early teens in your late teens early twenty's at college most of your peers are having sex so to not even be able to and to try to go on a date with someone and of course you date them long enough they're going to expect something to happen and nothing happens or you actually have to look at them and say i can't explain it i mean that's that's really hard. to have two such remotely small things happen to one person seems like statistically speaking there has to be a cause and maybe it's a similar cause how you know why would two such unique things happen without having some. pop you know at least possibly same cause you know i don't know if i'm phrasing that right but how can that be how i feel about not being able to have

children at this point in my life at forty i'm probably as ok with it as i can be it was i've had two different men in my life who have chosen not to have a long term relationship with me because i can't have kids and that hurts in fact the man i'm married to now at one point i told him that i would not marry him because i couldn't give him children and he was like already have a kid i don't even know what a time they are i've missed out on things i've had things taken away from me and i'm angry i've come to terms with it but it's not fair what i've found over the last year or so becoming involved with agent orange is you know there's there's so much stigma associated with saying i have a problem by reproductive system i think there are fewer people that are willing to talk about it now now that i've opened up and said this is what it is. it is hard

to talk about it's embarrassing i'm not precisely the role that everyone will do this and get find out that i don't have a uterus but at the same time i think it's important for people to know and i don't think it's something to be ashamed of but that has taken me probably twenty years to get around to to say i have nothing to be ashamed of. overcoming a barrier like this. but

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